A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

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

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.