Responsibility for the creation of the good world in which the good life may be realized, which the frustrated ages of the past loaded upon the gods, is now being assumed by man. The ideal of this modern drift is the realization of the full joy in living.

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

The true rule in determining to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it, but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two; so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.