A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.

Oh! happy are the apples when the south winds blow.

All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.

I'd just as soon a beggar as king, And the reason I'll tell you for why; A king cannot swagger, not drink like a beggar, Nor be half so happy as I. . . . . Let the back and side go bare.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...he progress of humanity, far from being the result of government, has been made entirely without its aid and in the face if its constant and bitter opposition.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience. Stipendiary clergy cut off by training and life from that common experience are constantly struggling to get close to the laity by wearing lay clothing, sharing in lay amusements, and organizing lay clubs; but they never quite succeed. To get close to men, it is necessary really to share their experience, and to share their experience is to share it by being in it, not merely to come as near to it as possible without being in it.

They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.

Remember, son, many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.