Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

A half truth is a whole lie.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everyting... they just make the most of everything that comes along their way...

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

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.