A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.

An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.

Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat

When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.

what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches

There was once a Hindu sage, who sat down on the banks of the Ganges and thought for seventy years about the millennium. Just as he arrived at the solution and was putting it into verse, a mosquito stung him and he forgot it again at once.