The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.

I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.

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.