Pleasant words are the food of love.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Compromise,n. 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.

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

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

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