The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Folks who never do any more than they are paid for, never get paid more than they do

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told

The Great Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been...

Man, like Deity, creates in his own image

An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.

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.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love…I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

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.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a round peg in a round hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

The goal of evolution is self – conquest

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience

Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory

Man is the only creature in the animal kingdom that sits in judgment on the work of the Creator and finds it bad – including himself and Nature

Sunday, with its immunity from work, was devised for slaves who got out of all the work they could during the week.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffing of the vertebrae which causes them to be loyal, to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies,...

Everything comes too late for those who only wait.

If you don’t advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who “”lives well

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

The man who has no more problems to solve, is out of the game.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

Grammar is the grave of letters

Charity is a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulus, the digitalis of failure.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

No one gets very far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get

Your neighbor is the man who needs you

Drop anchor anywhere and the anchor will drag – that is, if soul is a limitless, fathomless sea, and not a dog pond

To know when to be generous and when firm ”° this is wisdom

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.

Blessed is that man who has found his work.

Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Live truth instead of professing it.

Allow motion to equal emotion.