Never tell a lie-except for practice.

When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know how I got in and can't find the way out, but I'm having a booming time all to myself.Don't know what a Schelgesetzentwurf is, but I keep as excited over it and as worried about it as if it were my own child. I simply live on the Sch.; it is my daily bread. I wouldn't have the question settled for anything in the world.

The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!