Robert Staughton Lynd

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.

No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?