Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.