You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.
It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven’t lost the things money can’t buy.
I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it’s been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.
Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there’s nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.
The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.
Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.
Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
I ain’t one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it’s the other half which would really come in handy.
It isn’t what a man’s got in the bank, but what he’s got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.
You’ll find that education’s about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.
A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.
When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.
Those who succeed can’t forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can’t forgive him for being a success.
You’ve got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.
A business man’s conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.
True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady’s age.