If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was right and what wrong, making rules for the guidance of the people, instead of trusting to the natural, happy instincts of the individual, they ushered in the Dark Ages. These are the gentlemen who blocked human evolution absolutely for a thousand years.

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.