The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
From Gilbert K. Chesterton
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.
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