having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church.

Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.