There is no sinner like a young saint.

Prosperity lets goe the bridle.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.

Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind.

This book fills a much-needed gap.

It is not the position, but the disposition.

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

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.

It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471 Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Every ten seconds, somewhere on this earth, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.

Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the overwhelming amount of error and misunderstanding of the events of the future.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.