A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

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

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

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

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.