The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.

I believe the Universe is planned for good.

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

Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion

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.