Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.