As we grow better, we meet better people.

What people need and what they want may be very different.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

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.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him, speak well of him, and stand by the institution he represents. Remember, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must growl, condemn, and eternally find fault - resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content - but as long as you are part of the institution, do not condemn it. If you do, the first high wind that comes along will blow you away, and probably you will never know why.