Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

... 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

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

Example is better than following it.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.