Civilized man has always had a great inclination to read his conceptions and feelings into the mind of primitive man; but he has only a limited capacity for understanding the latter's undeveloped mental life and for interpreting, as it were, his nature.

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.

The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

A bicycle can't stand on its own because it's two-tired.

Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

I have learned that no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.

And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement of modern times. In its relation to the well-being of the men and women of this and ensuing generations, it exceeds in importance the proper solution of various economic problems which are constant themes of legislative discussion and enactment.

Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it I do believe, and take it.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

The rise of every man he loved to trace, Up to the very pod O! And, in baboons, our parent race Was found by old Monboddo. Their A, B, C, he made them speak, And learn their qui, quae, quod, O! Till Hebrew, Latin, Welsh, and Greek They knew as well's Monboddo!