Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

What! All this for a song?

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.

Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.

But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense, Old riddles still bid us defiance, Old questions of Why and of Whence.

There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of contact with the unknown.

A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays.

The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent chaos of phenomena.

Employment should not be your permanent assignment

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.

You can accomplish your goals by grace.

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.

I don't ever want to come home saying, 'I should have spoken my mind. I shouldn't have let someone say something that I didn't feel was right.'

Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side that employs air power as it should be employed.

Morality is truth in full bloom.