Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.