Voilence is a Just when kindness is vain

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

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