It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Habit never goes Because if you remove H Abit remains, If you remove A Bit remains, If you remove B It still remains.

When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

when in Rome, do as the Romans do.

'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

Don't seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise: seek what they sought.

It may seem absurd to some that all desires by which man is by nature affected are so completely condemned -- although they have been bestowed by God himself, the author of nature. To this I reply that we do not condemn those inclinations which God so engraved upon the character of man at his first creation, that they were eradicable only with humanity itself; but only those bold and unbridled impulses which contend against God's control.

The opposite of love, I have found, is not hate, but indifference.

Gain from your opponents without sacrificing your own strength.

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

It is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.

To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.