Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

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

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.