Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

... 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

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.