Leverage is everything-don't begin to pry until you've got the long arm on your side.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!

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