All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

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

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

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp