When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Some people take too much of vitamin "I".

Work thou for pleasure--paint or sing or carve The thing thou lovest, though the body starve-- Who works for glory misses oft the goal; Who works for money coins his very soul. Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be That these things shall be added unto thee.

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do! -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.

All I know is what I read in the papers.

Goose bee and calf govern the world.

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

Short term memory loss equals long term memory gain

Those who commence deliberately. They plod on. They stick to it. They persevere and finally reap their rewards.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

I only feel, but want the power to paint.

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

I could drown in a frown and swim in a smile.

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.