A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

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

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

God made time, but man made haste.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

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