Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .
Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.
Time is an illusion-to orators.
I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I’ll not be a guest for less than a hundred.
One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
Prophecy – To observe that which has passed, and guess it will happen again.
Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.
To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.
The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.
The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion.
The inspirations of today are the shams of tomorrow the purpose has departed.
Library: A place where the dead lie.
Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so – that is to say, as free as man.
It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.
Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o’clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.
Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.
There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.
The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress.
Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.