The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.