The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

The property of power is to protect.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

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

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.