A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

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

Among the aimless, unsuccessful or worthless, you often hear talk about 'killing time.' The man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life. While the man who is destined to success is the man who makes time live by making it useful.

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.

Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words.

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

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