Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Before following a leader, it's wise to see if he's headed in the right direction.