That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Wine is the most noble and beneficial of alcoholic drinks. Wine is for the sedentary whose work is thinking. Natural wines have been used without drunkenness by the millions of human beings for ages. They supply with iron, tannin and vitamins.

If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

While the fool is enjoying the little he has, I will hunt for more. The way to hunt for more is to utilize your odd moments...the man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life.

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.