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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

All human wisdom is summed up in these two words— Wait and Hope .

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

Without the rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Nobody sees with his eyes alone; we see with our souls.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

It is no doubt a good thing to conquer on the field of battle, but it needs greater wisdom and greater skill to make use of victory.

The author’s character is read from title-page to end. Of this he never corrects the proofs.

I never saw an author in my life, saving perhaps one, that did not purr as audibly as a full-grown domestic cat on having his fur smoothed the right way by a skillful hand.

The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so.

An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

No one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.

Truth emerges more readily from error than confusion.