The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

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 easier to be brave from a safe distance.

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.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

The comforter's head never aches.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

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