The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.
The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.
Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
You have to believe in gods to see them.
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Acceptance says, "True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me."
Iron sharpeneth man; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
"It was as true", said Mr. Barkus, "as taxes is. And nothing is truer than them."
As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.
It is good to have things that money can buy, but it is also good to check up once in awhile and be sure we have the things money can't buy.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
A man is a person who will pay two dollars for a one-dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two-dollar item she doesn't want.
Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
Research is to see what everybody has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. ... Keep hope alive.
It is a matter first of beginning-and then following through.