All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

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

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Only the educated are free.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

EDUCATION BEGINS WITH LIFE.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

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

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.