To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

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