Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

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

Power tires only those who do not have it.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

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