In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.

And what is the great thing that the stage does? It cultivates the imagination. And . . . the imagination constitutes the great difference between human beings. . . . The imagination is the mother of pity, the mother of generosity, the mother of every possible virtue. It is by the imagination that you are enabled to put yourself in the place of another.

Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both borrower and lender.

Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he must be self-supporting. To live on the labor of others, either by force which enslaves, or by cunning which robs, or by borrowing or begging, is wholly dishonorable. Every man should be taught some useful art.

Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.