I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.

We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.