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

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !