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All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.
Don't lose faith in humanity; think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
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.
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.
Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.
Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.
Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.
The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.
The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.
Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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.
A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.
As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.
You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting. You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think.
Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls.
Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
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.
I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.
What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.
I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.
Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune.
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.
Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.
Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.
Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.
A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.
Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes.
Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.
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.
If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?
Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.
All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.