In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.