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Study the best and highest things that are, but of yourself humble thoughts retain.

A favorite has no friend!

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

It is the growling man who lives a dog's life.

Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.

Temperance is a bridle of gold.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.

The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.

To accept a favor is to forfeit liberty.

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

Indecision is debilitating, it feeds upon itself, it is, one might almost say, habit forming. Not only that, but it is contagious, it transmits itself to others.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Time ripens all things, no man is born wise.