The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

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