A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.

Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.

Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes.