Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave