To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life.

Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life.

All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are read more

All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.

It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.

It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that read more

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.

Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.