Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

Sweet is pleasure after pain