The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Alexander's last wrds: Bury my body, dont build any monument. Kip my hand outside,so dat d wrld knws,who won th wrld had noting in hand wen dyin.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.