If [science] tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If it tries to find, or professes to have found, the solid ground at the bottom of the water it is all wrong. Our business is with the thickening of this crust by extending our knowledge downward from above, as ice gets thicker while the frost lasts; we should not try to freeze upwards from the bottom.

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.

The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.

It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow.

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

There is one class of mind that loves to lean on rules and definitions, and another that discards them as far as possible. A faddist will generally ask for a definition of faddism, and one who is not a faddist will be impatient of being asked to give one.