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 Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.