All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.

The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

The more one knows, the more one simplifies.

The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress.

The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.