For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has inflicted on Christian, the unkindness, the hypocracy, the intolerance, must consider the balance sheet with complacency. And when he remembers that it has laid upon mankind the bitter burden of the sense of sin that has darkened the beauty of the starry night and cast a baleful shadow on the passing plesures of a world to be enjoyed, he must chuckle as he murmurs: give the devil his due.

Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.