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

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

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.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

The property of power is to protect.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.