Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
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.
If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! 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. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.
Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.
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.
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
Natural joy brings no headaches and no heartaches.
Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
There is no failure except the failure of trying.
Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.
Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket.
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
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.
Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.
Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem.
Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.
If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.
It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.
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