Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.