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

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

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

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

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

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

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

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.