Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
“Some day I shall be President.”
“As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.”
“Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me”
“I have seen war ... I hate war.”
“If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.”
“How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.”
“Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.”
“To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.”
