Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.