Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.