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

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

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

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

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

Our errors are steps on the way.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.