If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

I have seen something of this world," she said over the trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it-- those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling

Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.

When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.