 The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was. |
| Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. |
| A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner. |
| The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. |
| I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am. |
| If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. |
| Music is well said to be the speech of angels. |
| Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether. |
| Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. |
| I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. |
| This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. |
| Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. |
| He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. |
| No person is important enough to make me angry. |
| No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve. |
| Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. |
| The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall. |
| Be not a slave of words. |
| Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes. |
| In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government. |
