As a final incentive before giving up a

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

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

He who gainsa victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himselfis all powerful.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

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.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.