Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

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

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

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 greatharmony.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.