It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

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.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.