Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

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

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

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

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

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.