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

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

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

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Every advantage has its tax

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.