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If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?

Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.

Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.

I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.

Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.

Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.

What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker.

I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of small bills.

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