The world is poisoned with erroneous theories, and needs to be taught sane doctrines, but it is difficult to straighten what has become crooked.
An alert and learned man will take advice from any event.
There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.
The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.
He who understands humanity seeks solitude
Nothing hurts a good soul and kind heart more than to live amongst people who can't understand it.
Silence is the garden of thought.
If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.
I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Courage, and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy. There are those who say I'm impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing. Whether I'm any of those things, or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am -- and this ought to be made very clear -- I am a very serious woman.
It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver.
A line is not made up of points. . . . In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows. ' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.