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

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

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

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.