Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

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

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous