Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

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

A man sits as many risks as he runs.