Do one thing every day you don't want to do.

It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur.

Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.