The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect. Errors will be resisted before they have been properly promulgated: notions will be first defined long after they are dead.

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.