The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness,and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

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

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Thereare two sides to every question.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.