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

Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.