There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

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

A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

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

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.