Society is much more easily soothed than one’s own conscience.
Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.
The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.
The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.
Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering.
It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. It is not recorded, incidentally, that the lesson has ever been permanently learned.
Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases.
