A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.