Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

Nostrength within, no respect without.

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

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

... 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

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears