Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Only the educated are free.

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

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

The more faithfully you listen to the voice withhin you, the batter you will hear what is sounding outside.And only he who listens can speak.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

I am atpeace with God. My conflict is with man.

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

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.