Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
Aldous HuxleyHuman contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.
Aldous HuxleyOn no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
Aldous Huxley