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

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Thereare two sides to every question.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.