The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.
Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.
Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.
Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.
Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.