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

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.