The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

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Personal appearance is looking the best you can for the money.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.