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

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

Youcan't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come toyou. You have to go to them sometimes.

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 more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

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.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.