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

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

God has created the world in play.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.

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

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.