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

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.