No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch....

Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch....

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No...

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No...

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our...

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our...

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of...

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of...

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing...

Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing...

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy...

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy...

I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if...

I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if...

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to...

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to...

Knowledge is true opinion.

Knowledge is true opinion.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can...

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can...

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is...

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is...