The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Humour is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour, for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Wit is educated insolence.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
Most people would rather give than get affection.
Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
How God ever brings like to like.
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life--knowing that under certain conditions it is not worth-while to live.
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.