In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

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

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

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

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

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

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.