A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.
A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.
To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.
In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
When two friends are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way. By 'more dialectical,' I mean not only that we give real responses, but that we base our responses solely on what the interlocutor admits that he himself knows.