Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

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

... 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

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

You'vegot to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, know when to run.

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Voilence is a Just when kindness is vain

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.