Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Better a broken promise than none at all.
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.
Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.
‘Classic.’ A book which people praise and don’t read.
Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.