Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business

If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion.

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

The supreme prayer of my heart is not to be learned, rich, famous, powerful, or good, but simply to be radiant. I desire to radiate health, cheerfulness, calm courage, and good will. I wish to...

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think.

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life’s luggage

A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as, or more, than he has contributed to him.

I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I’ll not be a guest for less than a hundred

No explanation ever explains the necessity of making one.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradict all you have said before

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

If you can’t answer a man’s argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names

Victory; a matter of staying power.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

A good man in an exclusive heaven would be in hell

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom – for himself

An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you

The business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell

A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

Professor [John] Tyndall once said the finest inspiration he ever received was from an old man who could scarcely read. This man acted as his servant. Each morning the old man would knock on the...

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.

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

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

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 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