A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority; brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?

I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred.

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.