Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

Artichokes are like humans: you have to go through so much to get to the heart.

The shameful apostasy of Israel is unparalleled among the heathen nations of the world, God charges (Jer. 2:9-13). Search through every pagan nation, inquire in every idol temple, investigate the religious life of the idolaters of the world, and there will be found a fidelity to these false gods that will put Israel's unfaithfulness to her God to shame. Israel's conduct was unheard of even among the heathen. The idolatrous nations remained true to their gods, in spite of the fact that they did not actually exist and could not help them in any way. God, as it were, marvels at Israel's unbelief.

The time to begin most things is ten years ago. -Mignon McLaughlin.

The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage. -Confucius Analects.

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment; and nothing remained, but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule.

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

That he that readeth may run over it.

Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility it becomes rashness or obstinacy.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

Failures are divided into two classes--those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.

Mad in the judgment of the mob, sane, perhaps, in yours.