FRANK MOORE COLBY

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.

The attempt to turn a complex problem of the head into a simple moral question for the heart to answer, is of course a necessary part of all political discussion.

As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.

Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.

When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass.

Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry rendering of a yawn.