Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

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

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.