Every April God rewrites the book of Genesis.

Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.

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.

If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.

Civilization is the world with its leg asleep.

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.