The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught to mount the first principles and take nobody's word about them.

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another comparisons only fan the fires.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

It is work work that one delights in that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

All really great lovers are articulate and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

One of the sanest surest and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights true religion affords to government it's surest support.

There are several good protections against temptation but the surest is cowardice.

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude and amending the error.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.