The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Nevercut what you can untie.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

... 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

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.