If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

I am atpeace with God. My conflict is with man.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.