Genius is a long impatience.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.