Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

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

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.