I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

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 ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.