"Worry is a cloud which rains destruction."

"Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought."

"...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same."

"Premature independence is the daughter of conceit."

"Correct teaching brings out human excellence."

"Presence and AbsenceA certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence: I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence."

"Never assume that any activity is anything more than attention-getting until you have excluded this element."

"Very often, people believe they are doing “significant” things when they merely want an interchange of attention."

"Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaFlattery:One of the most promising of businesses: always brisk."

"For every Pharoah there is a Moses."