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'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

Step after step the ladder is ascended

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

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.