I left with my canvas bag in which a few fundamental things were packed and took off for the Pacific Ocean with the fifty dollars in my pocket.
By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
It is man and not the Bible that needs correcting. Greater and more careful scholarship has shown that apparent contradictions were caused by incorrect translations, rather than divine inconsistencies...
A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character.
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
Ninety-five per cent of your success or failure will come from your daily habits.
I would have followed you to hell and back... if only you'd lead me back.