It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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

Compromise,n. 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.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.