The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.

Please do not take counsel of women who are so prejudiced that, as I once heard said, they would not allow a male grasshopper to chirp on their lawn; but out of your own great heart, refuse to set an example to such folly.

God is action - let us be like God.

I finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a wobbling wheel.

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.