"We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve."

"So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination."

"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."

"A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule."

"Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves."

"Here's to our wives and girlfriends... may they never meet!"

"What profits a man if he keeps his eternal soul when he could have lived life to the full and been forgiven at the end of it all anyway?"

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."