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

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem.

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.

When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was right and what wrong, making rules for the guidance of the people, instead of trusting to the natural, happy instincts of the individual, they ushered in the Dark Ages. These are the gentlemen who blocked human evolution absolutely for a thousand years.

Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.