No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.

It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.

Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for yourself, I have indeed added to your stature.