Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

... 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

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.