Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

Evil communication corrupt good manners.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out