Westleys Bleche White Quotes & Sayings

There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics. — Brander Matthews

One is punished best for one's virtues. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We'll shake, we'll shake the tree of dreams,
That solitary tree of dreams
In the centre of the verdant field. — Shusaku Endo

Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily be, may become the most effective and benignant of all the forces of civilization. Two reasons sustain this position. In the first place, there is a universality in its operation, which can be affirmed of no other institution whatever ... And, in the second place, the materials upon which it operates are so pliant and ductile as to be susceptible of assuming a greater variety of forms than any other earthly work of the Creator. — Horace Mann

I want you to believe in yourself, and take chances, even if it is scary and even if you don't know what you are doing yet. — Auliq Ice

Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times. — Koichiro Matsuura