Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

... 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 seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.