"All you need is ignorance and confidence; then success is
sure."
If you pick up a dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you.
This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at
all.
Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the
rest.
I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming
petty vices.
It is noble to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good,
and less trouble.
When I refelect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have
gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.
It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so
common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
It is best to read the weather forecast before we pray for
rain.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three
unspeakably precious things: freedom of speach, freedom of conscience,
and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Optimist: day-dreamer more elegantly spelled.
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.