A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.
Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.
Reject the phony Patients' Bill of Rights. . . . We don't have to continue down the path of socialized medical care, especially in America where free markets have provided so much for so many.
So preach that those who do not fall out with their sins may fall out with thee.