Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.
silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?
... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.
It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.
there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.
Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.