It is impossible that anything so natural so necessary and so universal as death should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness yet perhaps few...
I never saw heard nor read that the clergy were beloved in any nation...
We have enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one...
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable for the happy impute...
Power is no blessing in itself except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Politics as the word is commonly understood are nothing but corruptions.
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to...
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the...
A wise person should have money in their head but not in their heart.
A wise man should have money in his head but not in his heart.
When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the...
I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it...
What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in...
So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a...
I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm...
Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is...
I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They...
The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
As a reward for their efforts however those early Christians were beaten...
I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether...