My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

We all have scars & deep pain. It'swhat makes us human & vulnerable.

The bottom was always falling out of something in America far as I could see.

Good government is good politics.

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write, and there are very few of them.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.

Well," he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. "Here we are again.

As long as Im getting waves and having fun, the results tend to take care of themselves.

It's easier to get divorced than to engage in the soul-stretching personal growth that is inevitable in marriage

If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.