A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger. If faith is cultivated it will achieve the mastery ... faith is the stronger emotion because it is positive, whereas fear is negative.
One starts an action simply because one must do something.
We couldn't possibly know where it would lead, but we knew it had to be done.
If at first you succeed, don't take any more stupid chances.
To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.
Beware all enterprises that require new clothes.
What we call the beginning is often an end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What the country really needs is a good five-cent nickle.
The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
Whate'er th' Almighty's subsequent command, His first command is this - "Man, love thyself."
Most ball games are lost, not won.
It is never any good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
Some folks never exaggerate-they just remember big.
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.
It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.
It is abundantly clear that success tends to negate humility.