There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

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 greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Symanpathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

To be preparedis half the victory.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.