A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou