The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

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

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.