Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

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.

If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.

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

The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.

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