Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.