The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

The comforter's head never aches.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

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

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

In Prayer it is better to have a Heart without Words than words without a Heart.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.