The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.