Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.

Postponement: The father of failure.

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.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

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 heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.