A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Wives often object to life insurance, widows never do.

What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent.

As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.

To complain of lack of leadership is, in the field of political affairs, the characteristic attitude of all harbingers of dictatorship.

A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

Man thinks, God directs.

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

And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. -Sir William Haley.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

Without an element of the obscene there can be no true and deep aesthetic or moral conception of life...It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene they could never have dared to be great.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing peace is the measure.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

A Promise made is a debt unpaid.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.