Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

The world we write is but a dappled expression of the one in which we live.

Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.

Great fortune and peace of mind seldom live together.

Don't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and especially when judging yourself.

Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.

At a certain R.P.M., there's only one way for blood to leave your body, and that's through your eyeballs. That means you're dead.

The darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance.

History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.

When you are frightened, you typically pull energy in to your center, seeing less, hearing less-shrinking consciousness precisely when you need to expand it.

There is no prayer so blessed as the prayer which asks for nothing.