Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against 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

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.