Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

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

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.