Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

That art is best which suggests most.

After thirty-five a man begins to have thoughts about women; before that he has feelings.

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

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.

Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.