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If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing. Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent, but he is a wild beast who walks upright. Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interests. He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered. Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good. There is a good deal too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened. As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again. What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough. The two most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". How the past perishes is how the future becomes. He is well paid that is well satisfied. It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity. Great things are done more through courage than through wisdom. The only way to have a friend is to be one. Oh for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
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