Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

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

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.