To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

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

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.