Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake.
But scientists, who ought to know Assure us that it must be so. Oh, let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about.
The sea drives truth into a man like salt.
In the same way the eminence attaching to the mere possession of great wealth disappoints us nine times out of ten, especially if the wealth has been accumulated rapidly. For great wealth is accumulated rapidly by cunning or chance, or a mixture of the two. Cunning has nothing to do with high qualities; it is rather a presumption against them; while chance has nothing to do with them either. Therefore it is that men are always complaining after meeting So-and-so, that he seemed to be astonishingly stupid, though he made a million in ten years and started as a pauper.
[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse
How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like neighing - yet people are perpetually doing it in novels. If they did it in real life they would be locked up.
Money gives me pleasure all the time.
Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.
Very often your attitude about why an accident or illness has happened has an effect on your recuperation.
Anytime you get hate, send out love. Then love will come back & you'll be free.
Consider what God can do, and you will never despair of success.