When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike.
Honesty is the best policy.
Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.
A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.
It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
The only certain things in life are death and taxes!
A lawsuit is the suicide of time.
Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong.
The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.
The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance.
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Virtues, of ...Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Getting it done is my reward.
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.
Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.
There is no gains without pain.
Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature?
You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest.
A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.
Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
Enjoy the present hour, be mindful of the past; And neither fear nor wish the Approaches of the last. Learn of the skillful: He that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master.
The handshake of the host affects the taste of the roast
A light purse is a heavy curse.
Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive
The way to be safe is never to be secure.
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.
The best is the cheapest.
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%.
What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.
The Honey is sweet, but the Bee has a Sting.
The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.
Increase in me that wisdomWhich discovers my truest interest,Strengthen my resolutionTo perform that which wisdom dictates.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
He that's content hath enough.
I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.
I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.
Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!
You must always be prepared. Make sure to look at things from all angles. If you are not prepared you will fail.
