Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

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

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.