The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem".

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.

Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.