Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.