Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.

Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.