Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

But even the Christian, for all this satisfying and hopeful conviction, does not know the meaning of the mystery of life, and if he is wise he does not pretend to. He has enough light to light him on his way, but there are a great many gaps in his knowledge. When he says, "One day we shall understand", he is by no means always uttering a pious platitude. Quite frequently he is voicing a solid conviction, a genuine facet of hope. At present his vision is severely limited, and that is probably just as well, if his sanity is to be preserved. But when he is free of the limitations of temporal life, he has every hope of being able to know as surely as he is at present known.

How instinct varies in the grov'lling swine, Compar'd, half-reasoning elephant, with thine! 'Twixt that and reason what a nice barrier! Forever sep'rate, yet forever near!

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Who heeds not experience, trust him not.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

Before, beside us, and above The firefly lights his lamp of love.

Prologues precede the piece in mournful verse, As undertakers walk before the hearse.

And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Like trying to piss up a rope.

Easter Because upon the first glad Easter day The stone that sealed His tomb was rolled away, So, through the deepening shadows of death's night, Men see an open door ... beyond it, light.

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.

Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may diet.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.