Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

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

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom