“Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.”

“I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.”

“Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.”

“We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.”

“Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.”

“But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.”

“Human nature is all alike.”