A wise man will keep his Suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

Beneath the rubato of the day abided a stern pulse beating on, ineluctable, unforgiving, whereby whatever was evaded or put off now had to be made up for later, and at a higher level of intensity.

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.

Concentration is the doorway through which the meditative state becomes available.

Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.

I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.

You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that.

When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly."

The eyes of India only see in color.

God is the answer to all of those "How must it have come to be" questions.

To live a disciplined life, and to accept the result of that discipline as the will of God - that is the mark of a man.