Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.