The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.

Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody.

Method is the arithmetic of success.

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.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.