Distance lends enchantment to the view.
Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
The difference between the word and the word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.
It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.
To be busy is man's only happiness.
There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
When I was a boy of fourteen my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven...
He liked to like people therefore people liked him.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Conside...
He would be a consul no doubt by and by, at some foreign port, of the language of which he was ignorant; though if ignorance of language were a qualification he might have been a consul at home.
A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and...
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to he...
The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer is constructively in heaven when he is at work; and as for the musicia...