I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Noise proves nothing--often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity--another man's I mean.