Society and the World

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.

A modest garden . . . contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one’s liberty.

We wear the cape of civilization But our souls live in the stone age.

We wear the cape of civilization But our souls live in the stone age.

Virtue must shape itself in deed.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.

Technology . . . is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Sin is a queer thing. It isn’t the breaking of divine commandments. It is the breaking of one’s own integrity.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

I bowl so slow that if after I have delivered the ball I don’t like the look of it, I can run after it and bring it back.

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

ADVICE IS A DANGEROUS GIFT, EVEN FROM THE WISE TO THE WISE, AND ALL COURSES MAY RUN ILL.

A WOMAN HAS TO LIVE HER LIFE, OR LIVE TO REPENT NOT HAVING LIVED IT.

There is always a right way and a wrong way, and the wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

If someone says, 'It's not the money, it's the principle,' it's the money.

Good actions get good results in time.