Don't make excuses, make good.

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.

No man should dogmatize except on the subject of theology. Here he can take his stand, and by throwing the burden of proof on the opposition, he is invincible. We have to die to find out whether he is right.

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.

Action is thought tempered by illusion.