Better ask ten times than go astray once.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

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