Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

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

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

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

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

God made time, but man made haste.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.