There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less an exception to the general rule.
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
The biggest lesson I’ve learned is to prepare for the long haul, the rise and fall, and let neither define your sense of self.
This gives force to the strong — that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
A Man in Business must put up many Affronts, if he loves his own Quiet.
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show…let me do it now.- William Penn
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Cultivate kindness today and always.
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won’t.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
Real practice has no purpose or direction, so it can include everything that comes.
Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning Good morning at total strangers.
Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.
Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
