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.
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.