Every advantage has its tax

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.