You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

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

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

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

A room without books is a body without soul

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.