Society and the World

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.

Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter .

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

Be good and you will be lonely.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.