Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

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

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

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

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

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