Society and the World

I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment . . . It gives warmth and good feeling to all your personal relationships.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it’s a matter of inspiration.

Our inheritance of well founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries can bestow.

Our inheritance of well founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries can bestow.

Our inheritance of well founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries can bestow.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

In the final analysis there is no solution to man’s progress but the day’s honest work, the day’s honest decisions, the day’s generous utterances and the day’s good deed.

In the final analysis there is no solution to man’s progress but the day’s honest work, the day’s honest decisions, the day’s generous utterances and the day’s good deed.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Justice while she winks at crimes, stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Justice while she winks at crimes, stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Justice is being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

He that first cries out "Stop thief!", is often he that has stolen the treasure.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.