When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."

For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is lord also of himself, he will deserve his self-chosen title homo sapiens.

The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.