Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a lot of explanations.

A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.

Let it alone. Let it pass by.

Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art.

I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar and nuts. But of course the elephant wasn't satisfied.

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . . . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.

Glory is never where virtue is not.

Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist The why of natural law is the living Voice of God immanent in His creation. And this word of God which brought all worlds into being cannot be understood to mean the Bible, for it is not a written or printed word at all, but the expression of the will of God spoken into the structure of all things. This word of God is the breath of God filling the world with living potentiality. The Voice of God is the most powerful force in nature, indeed the only force in nature, for all energy is here only because the power-filled Word is being spoken. [Continued].

We shall escape the uphill by never turning back.

The law of heaven and earth is life for life.

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

For the world was built in order Around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.