Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

Success consists in the climb.

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.

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.