Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

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

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges