Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.

Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.

the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.