In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends

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

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

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

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him