When the cat's away the mice will play.
He that never changes his opinions, and never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
True worth is doing each day some little good, not dreaming of great things to do by and by.
There seemed to be endless obstacles ... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.
He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.
You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.
There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us, that it's rather hard to tell which of us ought to reform the rest of us.
Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home.
To choose is also to begin.
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
If you want to know how old a woman is . . . ask her sister-in-law.
No good deed ever goes unpunished.
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religion, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there were no paths.
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.