Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

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 cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

As a final incentive before giving up a

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

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

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.