The essence of humour is surprise; that is why you laugh when you see a joke in Punch.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The best mirror is an old friend.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.

A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

Because we are made in God's image, in fleeing from a relationship with a loving God, we are also running from being our most authentic selves.

It's a good thing to see that people can heal after they've been broken, that they can change and become something different from what they were before.

Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.

The moment that any life however good stifles you you may be sure it isn't your real life.

A Christian's celebration of Christmas should be a lot different from that of nonbelievers.

My children keep me real and keep me honest.

When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long.

Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?

Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.

Any marriage worth the name is no better than a series of beginnings - many of them abortive.