Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: the Son, O how unlike the Father! First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

Felix Frankfurter

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

G. M. Trevelyan

War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

Socrates

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Fulton John Sheen

I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

Tom Wilson

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Norman Vincent Peale

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

William Blake

I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism.

K Lee Lerner

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

Logan P. Smith

Prayer is a groan.

St. Jerome

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

Josiah Bailey