Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

He who has no Christmas in his heart will never find Christmas under a tree.

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

From the still-vexed Bermoothes. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.

It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged.

As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

If we could know which of us, darling, would be the first to go, who would be first to breast the swelling tide and step alone upon the other side -- if we could know!

Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.

The definition of luck is when opportunity meets preparation.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel. .

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

Traveler there is no trail you blaze the trail as you travel.

We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.

One of the best methods of rendering study agreeable is to live with able men, and to suffer all those pangs of inferiority which the want of knowledge always inflicts.

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.

I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.

Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so head he many vices; . . . he had two distinct persons in him.

Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.