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

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.