Nevercut what you can untie.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

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.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

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