Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

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