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

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

God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion.

Don't make excuses, make good.

In the Life of Darwin by his son, there is related an incident of how the great naturalist once studied long as to just what a certain spore was. Finally he said, "It is this, for if it isn't, then what is it?" And all during his life he was never able to forget that he had been guilty of this unscientific attitude, for science is founded on certitude, not assumption.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.