A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.

Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.