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 a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.