Be grateful for yourself... be thankful.
Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain, - Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.
For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps till the legend, "over steep ways to the stars," fulfills itself.
When my wife was asked, "Do you take this man for richer or poorer . . ." she answered, "For richer."
Man's best support is a very dear friend.
It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything worth doing.
More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself- it is the occurring which is difficult.
Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?
It is the risk element which ensures security. Risk brings out the ingenuity and resourcefulness which insure success.
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio.
Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more.
Time is that which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.