Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.