Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure."

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone. Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone.