There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.

Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, “I have done it."

Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful - must be bolstered up by force, fear and falsehood. Thus we always find slavery and organized religion going hand in hand.

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

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.