Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

Do one thing every day you don't want to do.

All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.