Genius is a long impatience.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

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

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.