Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.

Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary.

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.

None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U- Niversity of Gottingen. - George Canning, Song--Of One Eleven Years in Prison,

Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on; Back-turning slackens resolution.

For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill, To feel those tempests which fly over ditches.

When the Czar has a cold all Russia coughs.

And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.

Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.

Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace; East, west, north, and south let the long quarrel cease; Sing the song of great joy that the angels began, Sing the glory to God and of good-will to man!