The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Everyoneis wise until he speaks.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

... 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

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.