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

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

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

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Patience is the art of hoping.