Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

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

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.