The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.

Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.

It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the effort of every man to get the most he can for his services, and that of society, disguised under the name of capital, to get his services for the least possible return.

Carve every word before you let it fall.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.