A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.

The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.

The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.

When we pray for death we really desire a fuller life.

Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.