Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

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

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

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.