To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.

We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider other…

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste is like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, then to die daily in the sick-room.

Already and old man, he [Samuel Johnson] ventured on his Highland tour; and his heart, bound with triple brass, did not recoil before twenty-seven individual c…

It is clear from Gurdjieff's writings that hypnotism, mesmerism and various arcane methods of expanding consciousness must have played a large part in the stud…

Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time.

Everything looks like a failure in the middle.