If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning.

The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.

Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.

Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.

Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.

Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.

Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.