Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

God made time, but man made haste.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.