Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

I do not admire people who are wise after the event. I would rather be impaled on the other horn of the dilemma and be called one of the "I told you so's."

That within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals.