Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.

To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

Do you say that religion is still needed? Then I answer that Work, Study, Health and Love constitute religion. . . . Most formal religions have pronounced the love of man for woman and woman for man an evil thing. . . . They have said that sickness was sent from God. . . . Now we deny it all, and again proclaim that these will bring you all the good there is: Health, Work, Study - Love!

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.