The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.

Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.

A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred, since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other, you can no more separate them than you can separate the two sides of a coin.

[I]f you believe in God omnipresent, then you must believe everything that comes into your life, person or event, must have something of God in it to be experienced and loved; not hated.

There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.

Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance