Publisher Quotes

Your neighbor is the man who needs you.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat exceptfrom within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Live truth instead of professing it.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.

The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.

Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.

Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?

The inspirations of today are the shams of tomorrow the purpose has departed.

A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.

Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the person who makes wrong statements about others is themselves to be pitied, not the person they vilify. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.

A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.

The only way to retain love is to give it away.

As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.

We work to become, not to acquire.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.

The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train havealways been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him, speak well of him, and stand by the institution he represents. Remember, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must growl, condemn, and eternally find fault - resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content - but as long as you are part of the institution, do not condemn it. If you do, the first high wind that comes along will blow you away, and probably you will never know why.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.

Postponement: The father of failure.

A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.

Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible.

Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune.

Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.

Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.

Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.

Don't make excuses, make good.

Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket.

The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.