A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Only the educated are free.