How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.

The greatest thing in the world is for a man to be able to do something well, and say nothing about it.

A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.

Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.

Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business has been the greatest miracle the world has ever known.