Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

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.

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Liberation is not deliverance.