A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.

Hail! Thou as victor crowned.

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.

When words leave off, music begins.

How bright the sunshine dances in its joy, O'er the still flow of this majestic river!

A century or so since, they spoke of sharing our Lord with the heathen, and the world rocked with laughter at so crazy a scheme, with the Church joining loudly in the merriment. Yet today, who laughs now? We ought to be the gladdest and the most exultant people in the world; for we have found the key to our difficulties, and it turns; have come on a solution of life's problems, and it works.

No one should live by the early bird policy without finding out whether he classifies as a bird or a worm.

The woods are always empty if you're a poor hunter.

Beginning a series on the person of Jesus: I read the words and ponder them, but most of all I look at Jesus and try to understand His life, when I want to know the fullest truth regarding God. And when thus I look at Him, what do I learn? First of all, the true divinity of Christ Himself. I cannot doubt what is His own conception of His own personality. Through everything He does, through everything He says, there shines the quiet, intense radiance of conscious Godhead. Again, I say, it is not a word or two which He utters, though He does say things which make known His self-consciousness, but it is a certain sense of originalness, of being, as it were, behind the processes of things -- this is what has impressed mankind in Jesus, and been the real power of their often puzzled but never abandoned faith in His Divinity. He has appeared to men, in some way, as He appears to us today, to be not merely the channel but the fountain of Love and Wisdom and Power, of Pity and Inspiration and Hope: The wonderful thing about this sense of Divinity as it appears in Jesus is its naturalness, the absence of surprise or of any feeling of violence. (Continued tomorrow).

There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. -Henry David Thoreau.

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.

hasn't got a pot to piss in (nor a window to throw it out).

I despise mankind in all its strata; I foresee that our descendants will be still far unhappier than we are. Would I not be a criminal if, notwithstanding this view, I should provide for progeny, i.e. for unfortunates? [Ger., Ich verachte die Menschheit in allen ihren Schichten; ich sehe es voraus, dass unsere Nachkommen noch weit unglucklicher sein werden, als wir. Sollte ich nicht ein Sunder sein, wenn ich trotz dieser Ansicht fur Nachkommen, d.h. fur Ungluckliche sorgte?

If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

If one cannot catch the bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

In life, what happens to you isn't as important as what happens in you.

Silver's law: If Murphy's law can go wrong it will.