We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

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 cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

A room without books is a body without soul

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

The property of power is to protect.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.