The disciplined are free.
The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.
The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.
Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.
It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.
We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give.
Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
It were better to be of no church, than to be bitter for any.
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget…
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.
To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.
Many of the truths that we cling to depend on our point of view.
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand; so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any degree; only about as much as is used in the lowest kinds of poetry. Some penetration, accuracy, and coloring, will fit a man for the task, if he can give the application which is necessary.
It’s not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.
In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.
