Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.