It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.

If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.

Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.

We should let our godliness exhale like th odor of flowers. We should live for the good of our kind, and strive for the salvation of the world.

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.

Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself.

We read the future by the past.

Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.

Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.

It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.

All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.

I allow the deities of compassion to fill me with light for the highest good.

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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

God didn't bring us together. Our jobs brought us together. That's not divine intervention, that's just life.

Money holds terrible power when it is loved

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

It is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French.

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

I never forgive attacks on my work.