Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?

There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.

If the world were not so full of people, and most of them did not have to work so hard, there would be more time for them to get out and lie on the grass, and there would be more grass for them to lie on.

It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.

For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee- For Socrates, the hemlock cup; For Christ, Gethsemane.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.