All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. - Samuel Butler

One great reason why clergymen's households are generally unhappy is because the clergyman is so much at home or close about the house.

As a general rule philosophy is like stirring mud or not letting a sleeping dog lie. It is an attempt to deny, circumvent or otherwise escape from the consequences of the interlacing of the roots of things with one another.

Nothing will ever die so long as it knows what to do under the circumstances, in other words so long as it knows its business.