Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other.
Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.
Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in it’s larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.
Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.
Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.
Every life is its own excuse for being.
It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.
Strength and strength’s will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls.
Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.
Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.
Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation.
Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.
Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.
Allow motion to equal emotion.