There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or by pleasure and pain.

Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.

Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens.

As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.

Mortal through I be, yea ephemeral, if but a moment I gaze up at the night's starry domain of heaven, Then no longer on earth I stand; I touch the Creator, And my lively spirit drinketh immortality.

The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge.

It was Nathaniel's boundless capacity for stating the obvious that made him so charmingly human.

To my astonishment I saw him standing at a table with Kitty Jones. It was the Kitty Jones bit that was astonishing. Not the table. Though it was very nicely polished.

If Cosmic Ordering isn’t for you, shape yourself so it is.

My greatest treasure is my thoughts.

I never played sports. I wasn't any good at them.

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

In the garden I will die. In the rosebush they will kill me.

My own interest is far more in the Hebrew Bible. My religion is more personally related to the Hebrew Bible than it is to the New Testament.

If, through the years, the Cross in the life of the believer had been adhered to as strenuously as the Cross for salvation, the Church would not today be so plagued with modernistic infidelity.

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?

I want eternity. I was born for greater things.

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