Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

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

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou