I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

"Automatic" simply means that you can't repair it yourself.

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

Jesus lived His life in complete dependence upon God, as we all ought to live our lives. But such dependence does not destroy human personality. Man is never so fully and so truly personal as when he is living in complete dependence upon God. This is how personality comes into its own. This is humanity at its most personal.

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! . . . . By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England's roast beef.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

A secret is like a dove: when it leaves my hand it takes wing.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

There be of them that have left a name behind them.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

which is in the hands of malecontents who have failed in their career.

All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. But art not thou thyself giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion?

Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

Did you hear about the man who lost his whole left side? He's all right now.

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, place them in their best light.