Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Our true nationality is mankind.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
