One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money

I think this is so urgent and necessary that this is what I have to do.

If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might also seem to be made for the use and benefit of men

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.