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

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

I am atpeace with God. My conflict is with man.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.