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

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Our distrust is very expensive.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Think big, believe big and act big for gaining victory over your difficulties.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.