If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.

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.

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

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.