When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

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

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

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

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.