Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

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

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

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

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

Evil communication corrupt good manners.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.