Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.