When women go wrong, men go right after them.

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd, wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue!

Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.

Neither "property" nor the value of property is a physical thing. Property is a set of defined options...It is that set of options which has economic value...It is the options, and not the physical things, which are the "property" - economically as well as legally...But because the public tends to think of property as tangible, physical things, this opens the way politically for government confiscation of property by forcibly taking away options while leaving the physical objects untouched.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

Power concedes nothing without a demand.

Politics is not an exact science.

Beauteous Night lay dead Under the pall of twilight, and the love-star sickened and shrank.

Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.

He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.

The North! the South! the West! the East! No one the most and none the least, But each with its own heart and mind, Each of its own distinctive kind, Yet each a part and none the whole, But all together form one soul, That soul Our Country at its best, No North, no South, no East, no West, No yours, no mine, but always Ours, Merged in one Power our lesser powers, For no one's favor, great or small, But all for Each and each for All.

Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Although we ought always to raise our minds upwards towards God, and pray without ceasing, yet such is our weakness, which requires to be supported, such our torpor, which requires to be stimulated, that it is requisite for us to appoint special hours for this exercise, hours which are not to pass away without prayer, and during which the whole affections of our minds are to be completely occupied; namely, when we rise in the morning, before we commence our daily work, when we sit down to food, when by the blessing of God we have taken it, and when we retire to rest. This, however, must not be a superstitious observance of hours, by which, as it were, performing a task to God, we think we are discharged as to other hours. It should rather be considered a discipline by which our weakness is exercised and stimulated. (Continued tomorrow).

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.

May you live all the days of your life.

There's a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn't say it himself.