Carpe per diem - seize the check.

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world.

If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider "not spiritual work" I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking it is the spiritual for which I crave, when in truth it is the interest and exciting, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

The average child is an almost non- existent myth. To be normal one must be peculiar in some way or another.

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun, And in the dawn they floated on And mingled into one.

The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

It was the calm and silent night! Seven hundred years and fifty-three Had Rome been growing up to might And now was queen of land and sea. No sound was heard of clashing wars, Peace brooded o'er the hushed domain; Apollo, Pallas, Jove and Mars, Held undisturbed their ancient reign, In the solemn midnight, Centuries ago.

For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snow-storms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.

Keep your face towards the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.

I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.

43% of all statistics are worthless.