Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in such disastrous experiments.

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.