In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Society is our extended mind and body.

One of many ways to be useful is to inspire people to forget some rules imposed by society. Important rules are dictated by our hearts.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

The mother is the pillar of the home, of society, of the nation, and so of humanity itself.

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

You can fool some people sometimes, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

Civilization is the encouragement of differences.

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

In matters of conscience the law of the majority has no place.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious ,one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Evil draws men together.