The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then sprites, fairies, dryads, naiads, witches, ghosts and goblins, for your imagination is reeling, riotous, drunk, afloat on the flotsam of superstition. What you know then doesn't count. You just believe, and the more your believe the more do you plume yourself that fear and faith are superior to science and seeing.

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

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.

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

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.