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

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

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

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Malice drinketh its own poison.

The principle of equal protection is a positive concept implying equality of treatment in equal circumstances.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

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.