You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to 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.

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.