Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.
Life is just one damned thing after another.
Luck is tenacity of purpose.
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination.
The cure for grief is motion.
Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.
Punishment – The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
Laughter is higher than all pain.
We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.