Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Only the educated are free.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.