Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

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

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

As long as there is life there is danger.