Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.

Nothing can be created out of nothing.

The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?

No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through

What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

Only religion can lead to such evil.

For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.

I am Death. I come quickly, I come slowly, but I am not cheated.

I like the smell of my Grandma's soap - I used to sit in the bath and eat it.

Ride higher in life unto the higher life.

Forsake not an old friend for the new is not comparable to him a new friend is as new wine.

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the Great Lakes and these industries would be helpless.

I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus.

No girl was ever ruined by a book.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.