Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.

Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.

The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress.

Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the person who makes wrong statements about others is themselves to be pitied, not the person they vilify. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves.

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.