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

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

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

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.