It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Marriage is like the army. Everybody complains, but you'd be surprised at how many re-enlist.

Carry on, carry on, for the men and boys are gone, But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the women carry on.

Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622 If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will?

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion.

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today. They perform their cycles with the same mathematical precision, and they will continue to affect each thing on earth, including man, as long as the earth exists.

The world may be your oyster, but it doesn't mean you'll get its pearl.

Every hard-boiled egg is yellow inside.

I marched the lobby, twirled my stick, . . . . The girls all cried, "He's quite the kick."

A tragey means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

It is maintained that a society is free only when dissenting minorities have room to throw their weight around. As a matter of fact, a dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, In wonder, love and praise.

Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750 The Church knew what the Psalmist knew: music praises God. Music is as well, or better, able to praise Him than the building of a church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.

Examine what is said, not who speaks.