Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

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

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

What is well done is done soon enough.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.