If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

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

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

... 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

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.