If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

Our errors are steps on the way.

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.