We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.