The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
Humility is attentive patience.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives
I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.