Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

He understands badly who listens badly.

... 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

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

Habit: the shackles of the free

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.