Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

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

Be your own judge and you will be happy.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

What is well done is done soon enough.

... 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