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

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.