I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.