We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.