Carve every word before you let it fall.
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.
Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.