Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?
The sun will set without thy assistance.
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been.
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.
Electric clocks reveal to you Precisely when your fuses blew.
Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time, which explains why young years pass slowly, while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course.
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.
A fishing-rod was a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.
An enthusiast may bore others, but he has never a dull moment himself.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.