“A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.”
“In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.”
“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 woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.”
“We work to become, not to acquire.”
“When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.”
“I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”
“The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.”
“Every knock is a boost.”
“When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.”
“Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you”
“The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.”
“If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.”
“This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”
“Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.”
“Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.”
“Victory; a matter of staying power.”
“The love you liberate in your work is the love you keep.”
“The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem.”
“We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.”
“Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.”
“No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.”
“Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.”
“Laughter is higher than all pain.”
“Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.”
