It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

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

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

Accomplishmentof purpose is better than making a profit.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits