Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.

The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.