A good front is half the battle in love or war.

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.

As we grow better, we meet better people

When put to the test, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better

The path of least resistance is what makes rivers run crooked.

The man who has no problems is out of the game

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community could actually redeem the world.

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

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.

The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible

The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.

We never ask God to forgive anybody except where we haven’t

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is a very simple and effective one: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.

Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of troubles

Life in abundance comes only through great love

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket

The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off

We work to become, not to acquire.

Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

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

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

A woman can defend her virtue from men much more easily than she can protect her reputation from women

I would rather he able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate

A friend is a person who knows all about you–and still likes you.

Poetry is the bill and coo of sex

Society does not punish those who sin, but those who sin and conceal not cleverly

It is the weak man who urges compromise — never the strong man.

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.(Get Out or Get in Line, 1928)

Whenever you go out-of-doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in the sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul...

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