Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market... That at any rate is the theory of our constitution.

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving.