Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

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 function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

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

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

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