You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say read more

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and read more

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving
health to men.
[Lat., Homines ad read more

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving
health to men.
[Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt quam salutem
hominibus dando.]

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to read more

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with read more

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth.

To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.