A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

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