One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.
As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.
The morning paper is just as necessary for an American as dew is to the grass.
Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.