Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

Dumbness and silence are two different things.

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.

When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

An archer must never blame a target for missing it.

No one on any plane of existence is infallible or knows everything we need to know.

When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.

When you're in love, the whole world is Jewish.

I'm so hungry I could eat you! -Cloudpaw

I hit your thigh!” “Oh, please. A man doesn’t need that long to recover from a knee to the thigh.

You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up.

This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and Day; the One and the Varied; the Eternal and the Evolving.

For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.