Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Renown and repose do not go together.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

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