A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

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

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

The principle of equal protection is a positive concept implying equality of treatment in equal circumstances.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.