Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

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

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

Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.

Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.