Success consists in the climb.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Every man who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist." Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true is changing the Spirit of the Times. Thinkers help other people to think, for they formulate what others are thinking. No person writes or thinks alone--thought is in the air, but its expression is necessary to create a tangible Spirit of the Times.

It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.

Real life is in love, laughter, and work.

Habit is a form of exercise.

Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.