Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

No great thing could ever be achieved without encouragement.

If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.

I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

People who say that the Internet is the bubble are incredibly misguided.

Never build your content ship on rented land.

nothing makes one so easily a fatalist as indifference.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence.