The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

The property of power is to protect.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

... 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

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.