It takes a great man to be a good listener.
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.
If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only by their conduct, we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
Don’t you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?
Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.
The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.