Worry is half impatience and half ignorance.
The difference between a human being ten years of age and one fifty years of age lies altogether in the matter of toys.
Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy
Partial justice may exist with hatred; full justice requires charity.
If you scratch some saints you will find the devil.
A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.
The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.
We must be laid like a brand in the fire ... if we would gain immortal youth.
A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.
The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.
We should thank God that He did not give us the power of hearing through walls; otherwise there would be no such thing as friendship.
A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it.
Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"
The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.
The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again.
You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.
If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.
A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.
Many a man wins glory for prudence by seeking advice, then seeking advice as to what advice would be best to take, and finally following appetite.
Sorrow may be a good thing for a woman's heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face.
Nations die first in the big cities.
You can swim in life and seawater, but both are hard to swallow.
Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves.
