The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.
To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach.
Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences.