Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

No man's credit is as good as his money.

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

To me faith means not worrying.