There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

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

Example is better than following it.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.