Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Thesubconscious part in us is called the subjective mind, because it does notdecide and command. It is subject rather than a ruler. Its nature is to dowhat it is told, or what really in your heart of hearts you desire.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

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

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.