A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.