Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Statisticians know that if you put a man's head in a sauna and his feet in a deep freeze, he will feel pretty good - on the average.
Someday you will get your big chanceâor have you already had it?
Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience.
A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.
You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of the lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
The ability to piece together work that will both satisfy and support us is the secret to surviving, even thriving.
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience.
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
Beware of small expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.