In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.
Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.
The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem.
I believe in salvation through economic, social, and spiritual freedom.
Enthusiasm is like having two right hands.
An executive is one who makes an immediate decision and is sometimes right.
A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.
Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.
Every knock is a boost.
Would you make men better – set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.
The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.
If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.
I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.
I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.
Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.
The more one knows, the more one simplifies.
The past is one evil less and one memory more.