Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

As a final incentive before giving up a

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

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