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.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them

The cheerful loser is the winner

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

An impulse toward ourselves through the heart of another

Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others

Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.

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.