No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. When you make a decision to "be" a particular way, you can count on change and external circumstances to come along which will challenge that decision. Remain vigilant after declaring a major decision and manage yourself in relationship to the goal. Set up structures that support you staying on target.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.