The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.

Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

Christianity is not a "spiritual" religion, like some religions of the east. It is an intensely "practical" religion, having its moral roots in the practicality of judaism. It was not designed to change the way men think or believe as much as to change the way they act.

Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.