A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority; a brave looking forward to the future, with more self-confidence and more faith in our fellow men, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of life and light.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Character is the result of two things, mental attitude and the way we spend our time. It is what we think and what we do that makes us what we are.

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

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and see that the chaff is printed.

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbour, tho' he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him -- speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents.

If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

If you must vilify, condemn and eternally disparage, why, resign your position, and then when you are outside, damn to your heart's content. But I pray you, as long as you are a part of an institution, do not condemn it. Not that you will injure the institution -- not that -- but when you disparage a concern of which you are a part, you disparage yourself.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

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

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

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

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

The one who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is a very simple and effective one: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed -- it is a process of elimination.

The supreme prayer of my heart is not to be learned, rich, famous, powerful, or "good", but simply to be radiant. I desire to radiate health, cheerfulness, calm courage, and good will. I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural, clean in mind and clean in body, unaffected -- as ready to say "I do not know", if it be so, and to meet all men on an absolute equality -- to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.

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

We work to become, not to acquire.

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.