The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Men are cruel, but man is kind.