Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.

Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.