Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Genius is a long impatience.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

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

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.