Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of aerial navigation-and along with that belief is the hope that that genius will reveal his miracle before they die, and likewise a dread that he will poke off somewhere and die himself before he finds out that he has such a wonder lying dormant in his brain. We all know the air can be navigated-therefore, hurry up your sails and bladders-satisfy us-let us have peace.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.