There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

People decline invitations when they are "indisposed" physically, and I wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. A person has no more right to attend a party with a head full of venom than with a throat full of virus.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.

Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.

All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.

Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer" more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.