The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.

One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching."

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.