It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

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

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Youcan't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come toyou. You have to go to them sometimes.

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.