The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

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

Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.

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.

Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.

The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.