It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

People fall forward to success.

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.

Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.