Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors

Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

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.

Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better