People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.