The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

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

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

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

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.