Pain is deeper than all thought; laughter is higher than all pain

The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.

The only time some fellows are ever seen with their wives is after they’ve been indicted

People who take pains never to do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work.

Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines its spirit, you had better build well

Life without absorbing occupation is hell – joy consists in forgetting life

Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success?

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on “”giving as good as they get.””

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

If you suffer, thank God – it is a sure sign you are alive

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

The object of teaching a child is to enable them to get along without their teacher.

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped

Big business makes its money out of buy – products

At first a woman doesn’t want anything but a husband, but just as soon as she gets one, she wants everything else in the world

To stop sinning suddenly.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed–it is a process of elimination.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is good work today.

Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. 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...

The great orator always shows a dash of contempt for the opinions of his audience

I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

The man who doesn’t relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse,...

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant- the digitalis of failure

Failure / The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Every life is its own excuse for being.

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

Every saint has a bee in his halo