Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.
For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.
Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.
Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession.
Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.
It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.
When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.
Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it's hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around it may be to keep it as simple as possible.
Shipping has a great oversupply of vessels that came from over-ordering a few years back. We think 2014 may be when it turns around.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.
It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.
It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it.
Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
