1. The first blow is half the battle.
2. The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
3. We crave freedom, but freedom is never an end in itself; it is a means to be used for further aims.
4. Idiots are almost always conceited and talkative.
5. The heart of the fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise is in his heart.
6. The family is the nucleus of civilisation.
7. Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.
8. When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
9. A joy that is shared is a joy made double.
10. The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
11. City life: millions of people being lonesome together.
12. Everything cannot be sacrificed at the altar of rationality.
13. It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
14. Nothing will be gained by weeping over a past error.
15. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honour and glory.
16. Faith will move mountains.
17. May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
18. The easiest way to dignity is humility.
19. Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
20. And do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
21. A woman's first social duty is to her own family.
22. Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bold behind.
23. You will go most safely in the middle.
24. Man is a wild beast who walks upright.
25. Love is a great cementing force.
26. Law, like the spider's web, catches the fly and lets the hawk go free.
27. No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
28. Ideas cannot be fought except by better ideas.
29. A house divided against itself cannot stand.
30. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.