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

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

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

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

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.

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

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