“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.”

Science is organized knowledge.

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

Government is essentially immoral.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.

The mind is the effect, not the cause.

The effect of sincerity is to give one’s work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.

It’s hard to soar with the eagles when you’re surrounded by turkeys.

Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

There’s a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.

Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.

Spirit is like the wind, in that we can’t see it but can see its effects, which are profound.

Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don’t like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.