A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.

Use the right word, not its second cousin.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.