We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

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

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

To be preparedis half the victory.

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important