Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
A blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat which isn't there.
Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale.
See everything: overlook a great deal: correct a little.
I have never advocated war, except as a means of peace.
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.
God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.
The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.
Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the presidency.