Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely disrupt society. Second, we declare it is heretical, infidelic and contrary to the Bible. Third, we say it is really a matter of no importance either one way or the other. Fourth, we aver that we have always upheld it and believed it.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket.

Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.

Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.

Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.