“The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.”

“It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.”

“Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.”

“A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and a common hatred of its neighbors.”

“what is originality ? undetected plagiarism!”

“Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next. ”

“It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.”