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

Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.

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

Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

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.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.