Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

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

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

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.