The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.

The finger that turns the dial rules the air.

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.

Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.