"This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better."

The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

The Devil deserves zero tolerance.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.