Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: “Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.” Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.