Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

As long as there is life there is danger.

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends

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

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.