It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

Beautifullight is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is oftenthe strongest and the best.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

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

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.