There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.

Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Ideology has very little to do with "consciousness" -- it is profoundly unconscious.

Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.

If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane -- if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on that ground -- ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been content with the cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility. From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us, you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must look to God.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.

Can one desire too much of a good thing? -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.

Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.

Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people.

All of the men on my staff can type.

God who sends the wound sends the medicine.

Whose words all ears took captive. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

What passes as a woman's intuition, is usually nothing more than a mans transparency.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

I come like Water, and like Wind I go.

We, that would be known The father of our people, in our study, And vigilance for their safety, must not change Their ploughshares into swords, and force them from The secure shade of their own vines, to be Scorched with the flames of war.