“Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.”

Success is the child of audacity.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

There is no education like adversity.

Travel teaches toleration.

Justice is truth in action.

Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

As for our majority… one is enough.

Presently we have to train our unconscious to function better. Then we can depend upon our instincts, that will be noble instincts.

To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets – even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.