Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.