Production is the only answer to inflation.

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

If you wish, Faustinus, a bath of boiling water to be reduced in temperature,--a bath, such as scarcely Julianus could enter,--ask the rhetorician Sabinaeus to bathe himself in it. He would freeze the warm baths of Nero.

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.

This is the Thing that I was born to do.

Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.

I used to want to pack as much as I could into my life, but now I realize it's more about quality of life than quantity.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

A harmless necessary cat. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.

Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

A farmer learns more from a bad harvest than a good one.

Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air.

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who want it the most always like it the least.

The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.

Will you have all in all for prose and verse? Take the miracle of our age, Sir Philip Sidney.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.