Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

... 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

Money is what things run into and people run out of

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…