It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

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.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.