Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made if he had only ridden more in buses.

Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.

A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know."