That which is useless dies. Animals that fail to serve some useful purpose in the scheme of things slowly but surely become extinct. Let any part of the human body cease to perform its ordained function, and it withers-as when an arm is kept long in a sling. This same decree, that nothing useless is permitted to survive, runs through the mind of the industrial world.

Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.

The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

It is well for civilization that human beings constantly strive to gain greater and greater rewards, for it is this urge, this ambition, this aspiration that moves men and women to bestir themselves to rise to higher and higher achievement. Individual success is to be won in most instances by studying and diagnosing the kind of rewards human hearts seek today and are likely to seek tomorrow.

Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.