The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.

What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.

There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others