Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

... 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