Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal ? no one will see it. But when a button is missing?everyone sees that.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
