A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Nevercut what you can untie.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

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