You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

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

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

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Constantrepetition carries conviction.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

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

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.