- It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
- What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
- Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- If well used, books are the best of all things; if abused, among the worst.
- The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
- Insist on yourself; never imitate . . . Every great man is unique.
- Men are what their mothers made them.
- A man is a god in ruins.
- In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
- Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
- Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.
- The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- [on control] Self-control is coolness and absence of heat and waste.
- [on criticism] Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-pulling, but guiding, instructive, inspirational-a south wind and not an east wind.
- [on enthusiasm] Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
- All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all i have not seen.
- Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of too much civilization.
- To be great is to be misunderstood.
- The world laughs in flowers.
- Do what we can, Summer will have its flies.
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