Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.
Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.
Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune.
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
Don’t lose faith in humanity; think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.
All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.
Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.