A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

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

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.