As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

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

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

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

God has created the world in play.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.