Much learning does not teach understanding.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

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

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

You can't unscramble an egg.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

A half truth is a whole lie.

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

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.