A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

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

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.