Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Patience is the art of hoping.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.