A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

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

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

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

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

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.