To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

In the Life of Darwin by his son, there is related an incident of how the great naturalist once studied long as to just what a certain spore was. Finally he said, "It is this, for if it isn't, then what is it?" And all during his life he was never able to forget that he had been guilty of this unscientific attitude, for science is founded on certitude, not assumption.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that this world is full of misery, but the next world would be beautiful - or not, as the case may be - has forced on men the thought of fear where otherwise there might have been the happy abandon of nature.

There are three sides to every question-where a divorce is involved.