A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
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.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
