Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived from twitching of frogs' legs (especially if the frogs are decapitated) and that, on the other hand, any doctrine chiefly vouched for by the feelings of human beings (with heads on their shoulders) must be benighted and superstitious.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

Effort is a measure of a Man.

No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says, "This is the real me!"

Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.