The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children.

Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.