Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand |
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. |
Science is nothing but perception. |
Self conquest is the greatest of victories. |
Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, or opposites at all without opposites |
Some parents really bring their children up; others let them down |
Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge. |
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters. |
stretching it to something the statute didn't intend. |
That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman. |
The beginning is the most important part of the work. |
The car just seemed to be different in qualifying this afternoon to how it was in free practice |
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort. |
The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy. |
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life |