The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.

The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.

Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.

They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.