Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

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

Patience is the art of hoping.

Symanpathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.