Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or integrity. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. The teach the truth by living it.

Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field; wherever a mine yields its treasure; wherever a ship or a railroad train carries freight to market; wherever the smoke of the furnace rises, or the clang of the loom resounds; even in the lonely garret where the seamstress plies her busy needle--there is industry.

I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.

In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,--the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.