Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, They damn those authors whom they never read.

A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.

Every man...should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind.

Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

The gloaming comes, the day is spent, The sun goes out of sight, And painted is the occident With purple sanguine bright.

No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. Whenever the secular arm is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.

Et tu, Brute!

Use it or lose it.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

You grow up the first day you have your first good laugh-at yourself.

Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly.

We love without reason, and without reason we hate.

In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part.

Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...he progress of humanity, far from being the result of government, has been made entirely without its aid and in the face if its constant and bitter opposition.

every Tom, Dick and Harry.

The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.