Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

God made time, but man made haste.

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

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

When a man meets his mates society begins.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.