Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.
For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
We love the Lord, of course, but we often wonder what He finds in us.
How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.
A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.