No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.