Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Accomplishmentof purpose is better than making a profit.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

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 most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.