Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

All progress is experimental.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

Attack another's rights and you destroy your own.

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Those who win never give up.Those who give up never win.

Life did not take over the world by combat, but by networking.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

I never played a round when I didn't learn something new about the game.

I am a loyalist and I really absolutely love film.

If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you.

I believe in good. It is an ephemeral and elusive quality. It is the center of my beliefs, but it cannot be strengthened by talking about it.

But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything.