Occupation: Author Birth: June 6, 1860 Death: February 26, 1954
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due..
It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minu….
A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings..
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were a….
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself..
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours..
Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings..
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism..
Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high..
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little..
The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot..
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion..
The happy people are those who are producing something..
There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences..
The Devil deserves zero tolerance..
A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human wi….
Nature takes away any faculty that is not used..
Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it..
To marry is to get a binocular view of life..
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense..
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values..