The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
An editor - a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff and to see that the chaff is printed.
Whenever you go out-of-doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in the sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every hand...
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.
It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
I rather like the world. The flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.
There is no devil but fear.
Don't lose faith in humanity: think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
Where much is expected from an individual he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized vilified and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness and every man understands too that it is no pro...
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
Fear clogs faith liberates.