In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

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

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears