It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle.
True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.
Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.
The quickest way to take the starch out of someone who is always blaming himself is to agree with him.
My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.