Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
I don't want to be a passenger in my own life
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.
The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband is unworthy of the name of wife.
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.
He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.