“The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.”
“Life is just one damned thing after another.”
“Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.”
“Habit is a form of exercise.”
“There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.”
“Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.”
“To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .”
“Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.”
“Enthusiasm is like having two right hands.”
“The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.”
“Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.”
“Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.”
“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
“If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.”
“The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.”
“Growth is often a painful process.”
“Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.”
“The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other.”
“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”
“The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.”
“No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think?”
“The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.”
“Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.”
“Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.”
“Don't make excuses, make good.”
