When civil fury first grew high, and men fell out they knew not why.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

A problem well-put is half-solved.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.

Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

You don't have to be big or well known to be great.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot. Men are no superior by reason of the accidents of race and color. The are superior who have the best heart—the best brain.

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the “common good,” but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

O beautiful for spacious skies, For Amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!