Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

Never strike out of anger if at all possible, this will give your enemy the advantage and strengthen his resolve and psyche

This is a diseased world in which it is impossible for anyone to be fully human. One way or another, everyone who lives in the modern world is sick or maladjusted.

The sword of destiny has two edges. You are one of them.

I like black because it is a vacant space.

Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

In the acquisition of Sacred knowledge, scholarship and reason are not alternatives to revelation. They are a means to an end, and the end is revelation from God.

Letters of friendship require no study.

Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.

Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.

Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.