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

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

True miracle are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence God has given him

The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.

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

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.