The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress.

Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.

An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.

When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.