Be confident, not certain
Do one thing every day that scares you.
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.
Work is always an antidote to depression.
Don’t call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it’s not sexist.
If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.
There isn’t a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?
Do not assume anything. Clear your mind must be if you are to discover the real villains behind this plot.
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven’t as yet arrived.
Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.
Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.
Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
When the desire ain’t on me I don’t need help. When it is on me I don’t want any. See? Like the old fellah that never mended his roof. Said on a wet day he couldn’t do it and on a dry day it was as good as anybody’s.
