Live truth instead of professing it.

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.

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, “I have done it."

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

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