It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.

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

A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.

Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake.