There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.

A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them