Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.
Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.
Lawyers are the jackals of commerce.
Life is a movement outward, an unfolding.
Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day Fate steps in and our dreams are tossed into the yeasty deep. We grin and bear it – anyway we bear it: it is the only thing to do.
No man ever did or can do a great work alone.
I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.
Government is a kind of legalized pillage.
The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.
Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously.
It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.
No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.
God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.
If you don’t advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.
The home is a tryst-the place where we retire and shut the world out.
Your neighbor is the man who needs you.
Postponement: The father of failure.
Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.
I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of small bills.
Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.