It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

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

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.