This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

God teaches the soul by pains and obstacles, not by ideas.

Faith is the poetry of our dreams

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

General Peckem even recommends that we send our men into combat in full-dress uniform so they'll make a good impression on the enemy when they're shot down".

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

He gives twice who gives quickly. credited to Publius Syrus Mimus.

This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers, and making them think they're really benefiting.

If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?

The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become

The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows.