If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.

The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.

Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure