Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four ….

No matter who you are, you will be put abed at last with a shovel..

Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard..

And death, that sits in marble silence cold, Will furnish hope to those who may behold The meaning in the everlasting change Of all that dies, return….

An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about..

Laws are made by the old, exceptions by the young..

There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!".

Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves..

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine..

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art..

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces..

Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud..

You can't change the world But you can change the facts And when you change the facts You change points of view If you change points of view You may ….

Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again..

The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning..

Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food..

Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy.

Those who cook up stories will get into hot water..

If you scratch some saints you will find the devil..

Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape..

The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged..