Day without laughter is a day wasted. -Charlie Chaplin   Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles. -Charlie Chaplin   Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. -Charlie Chaplin   To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it! -Charlie Chaplin   Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone. -Charlie Chaplin   Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. -Charlie Chaplin   Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where…

“There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them. . . . Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God’s Word. They love the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would have the…

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.” ― Charles Darwin     “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” ― Charles Darwin     “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” ― Charles Darwin     “Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which…