A good conscience is the best divinity.

Symanpathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

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

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

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