"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!"

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

"Put out the light."

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty.'"

"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."

"When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally."

"Women will work out their destinies-much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of women."

"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge"

"When we really begin to live in the world, then we understand what is meant by brotherhood or mankind, and not before."

"I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce."

"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something."