186 Quotes by E. W. Howe

We love the Lord, of course, but we often wonder what He finds in us.

In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business has been the greatest miracle the world has ever known.

When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.

Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.

If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox.

Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition.

Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.

Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.

We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.