A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges