Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

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

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

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

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.