Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.
If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.
Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
The thing we fear we bring to pass.
Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
History: a collection of epitaphs.