A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

There is no come back to caves. We are too many.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.

Our true nationality is mankind.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.