Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

shooter's touch (basketball cliche).

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. - The Silence of the Sea.

Care is the the actualization of love assumed. -Doc Childre.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at their length the streamers play, And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze.

The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.

If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire ,

I have mark'd A thousand blushing apparitions To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames In angel whiteness beat away those blushes. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.

Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

The noblest revenge is to forgive.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

Our life's a flying shadow, God's the pole, The index pointing at Him is our soul; Death the horizon, when our sun is set, Which will through Christ a resurrection get.