Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Thereare two sides to every question.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

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 real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

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