We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat.

It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat.

The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a read more

The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it.

If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no read more

If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that read more

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do read more

Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.