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

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.