Nothing in the world is quite so irritating as dealing with mutinous children.
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
It would sound like a dream,” said billy. “Other people’s dreams aren’t very interesting, usually.
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.
Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.
If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
Nothing worthwhile is gained without sacrifice.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Words which do not give the light of christ increase the darkness.
I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.