A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.

I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up

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.

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.