Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

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

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

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

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.