Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

France is great because she is France.

Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth, John names thee Light, the Book of Kings names thee Lord, Exodus names thee Providence, Leviticus Sanctity, Esdras Justice, creation names thee God, man names thee Father; but Solomon names thee Compassion, which is the most beautiful of all thy names.