As we grow better, we meet better people.
In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.
Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
It is the weak man who urges compromise – never the strong man.
Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
Success consists in the climb.
An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
Fear clogs; Faith liberates.
The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.
Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.
The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary.
He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.