To beprepared is half the victory.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

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

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Throughconflict we get to unity.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.