Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

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

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

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

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.