Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

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

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

The greatest prayer is patience.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Conflictcan destroy a team which hasn't spent time learning to deal with it.