If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

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

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.