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

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Better hazard than always be in fear.