Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind, politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.

You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.

We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.

That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.

My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example.

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.