The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.

And what is a man without energy? Nothing - nothing at all.

I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.

It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.