Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

All thingsat first appear difficult.

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

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.