War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

Indeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is indeed a type, in the sense of a prophecy, of things speaking with authority. For when he who doubts can only say, ‘I do not understand,’ it is true that he who knows can only reply or repeat ‘You do not understand.’ And under that rebuke there is always a sudden hope in the heart; and the sense of something that would be worth understanding.

If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.

It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.

The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded.