Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.