It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.

The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.