Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.

If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

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.

Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.