The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

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

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.