Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.
The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
In this war, a danger there is, of losing who we are.
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.
Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
