You must remember that all work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there to wake up the soul.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

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

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

A language is like living skin itself.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.