Necessitynever made a good bargain.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

To beprepared is half the victory.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.