Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

To be preparedis half the victory.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.

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

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.