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

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.