A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

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

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.