Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

Less, but better.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords.