When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

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

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

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