A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

When weblame, we give away our power.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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