The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

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

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -Will Rogers

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.