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

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

The present is never a happy state to any being

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

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

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.