No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

Principles without programs are platitudes.

The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.