Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.

Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

In dreams begins responsibility.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.