you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

A Leader is a dealer in hope.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

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