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

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump; the second shuns reason entirely — which is why superstition is not the ally, but the enemy, of true religion.

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.

A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.