Habit: The great economizer of energy.
Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.
I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I’m ready, RIGHT NOW.
Most people like hard work, particularly when they’re paying for it.
It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.
Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven’t any to speak of.
Do not dump your woes upon people – keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
History: gossip well told.
Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication.
Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.
Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire.
A creed is an ossified metaphor.
All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.
Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.
There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others.
The goal of evolution is self – conquest.
Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?
Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter’s colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.
People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.