An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; so does inaction sap the read more

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going read more

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be -- like the reality of yesterday -- an illusion tomorrow.

So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic read more

So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon our society than the others.

Let lessons of stern yesterdays . . . be your food, your drink, your rest.

Let lessons of stern yesterdays . . . be your food, your drink, your rest.