Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

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

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.