To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

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

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

The comforter's head never aches.

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