Renown and repose do not go together.

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.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.