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

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

Ability is poor men's wealth

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.