Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.

it'll put hair on your chest.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

...like being nibbled to death by ducks.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, And what to those we give, to Jove is lent.

Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710 The purpose of religion -- at any rate, the Christian religion -- is not to get you into heaven, but to get heaven into you.

I see my reputation is at stake; My fame is shrewdly gored.

The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.

Bad planing on your part does not necessarily constitute an automatic emergency on my part.

You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire, once the flame begins to catch, the wind will blow it higher.

Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things -- wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete... babies are almost the only remaining link with nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy.

By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers Armed in proof and led by shallow Richmond.

The greatest obstacle to progress is prejudice.