Conformists die, but heretics live forever.
I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.
The hundred-point man is one who is true to every trust; who keeps his word; who is loyal to the firm that employs him; who does not listen for insults nor look for slights; who carries a civil tongue in his head; who is polite to strangers without being fresh; who is considerate toward servants; who is moderate in his eating and drinking; who is willing to learn; who is cautious and yet courageous.
Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.
Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.
The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.
It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.
I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up
No man should dogmatize except on the subject of theology. Here he can take his stand, and by throwing the burden of proof on the opposition, he is invincible. We have to die to find out whether he is right.
Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.
The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight in one blow, to live eternity in an hour.
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.
There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.
Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.
History: a collection of epitaphs.
Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.
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