We are wiser than we know.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can.
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
Don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
