Neversay more than is necessary.

Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

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