“Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in rea...” — John W. Foster Quote

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

The here-and-now is no mere filling of time, but a filling of time with God.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

I am almost inclined to say that India will get Dominion Responsible Government the day the Hindus and Muslims are united.

Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.

Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.