Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

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

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

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

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