The most agreeable thing in life is worthy accomplishment. It is not possible that the idle tramp is as contented as the farmers along the road who own their own farms, and whose credit is good at the bank in town. When the tramps get together at night, they abuse the farmers, but do not get as much satisfaction out of it as do the farmers who abuse the tramps. The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

Most people put off till tomorrow that which they should have done yesterday.

No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.

People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much.

One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool