To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

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

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

A lie has no leg, but a scandel has wings

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.