First God created time; then God created man that man might, in the course of time, perfect himself; then God decided that He'd better create eternity.

Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office?

Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.

An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.

We all know them — the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats some purpose.

We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.

Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.