Quotes
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
The less routine the more life.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
Our ideals are our better selves.
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.
Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.