If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

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