Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.

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

I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up

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.

Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, “I have done it."

Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.