A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.

If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.

The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.

Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.

Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

Offended self-love never forgives.

Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.

Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.

Stories first heard standing at a mother's knee, are never wholly forgotten, — a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years.

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.

I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.

Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?

The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.

The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as leaves.

It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.

Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.