Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors

I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.