New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

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

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?