Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.