First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

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

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

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.