"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your thing."

"Speculations and loans in foreign fields are likely to bring us into war... The war-for-profit group has counterfeited patriotism."

"The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice."

"I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - so all is peace."

"He who is always his own counselor will often have a fool for his client."

"The ultimate security is your understanding of reality."

"Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in."

"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."

"Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity."

"The real train of knowledge isn't a static entity that can be stopped and subdivided. Its always going somewhere."

"The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions."

"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote."