It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.
I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
The devil has his elect.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
English culture is highly literary-based.
College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation
Richard Nixon got kicked out of Washington for tapping one hotel suite. Today we're tapping every American citizen in the country, and no one has been put on trial for it or even investigated. We don't even have an inquiry into it.
Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.