“On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.”
“Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment”
“Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.”
“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.”
“The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.”
“Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but paddling like the dickens underneath.”