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.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

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