One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him...two.

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.