Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!