Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

The comforter's head never aches.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.