Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

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

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

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

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.