A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

Born, n. a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

What makes night within us may leave stars.

At the center of your being you are the answer. You know who you are, and you know what you want.

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

The people turn to a benevolent rule as water flows downwards, and as wild beasts fly to the wilderness.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.