“He who will not economize will have to agonize.”

“A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.”

“The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.”

“He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.”

“It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.”

“When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.”

“The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.”

Light tomorrow with today.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.

Ending is better than mending.

“It’s opener there in the wide open air.”

“Only you can control your future.”

“So be sure when you step, step with care and great tact. And remember that life’s A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you’ll move mountains.”

“Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.”

“I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.”

“In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.”

“Oh the things you can find, if you don’t stay behind!”

But no one came. Because no one ever does.

Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail...

Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?