The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. |
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. |
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace. |
Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake. |
The love we give away is the only love we keep. |
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. |
Live truth instead of professing it. |
Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true. |
It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get. |
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner. |
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. |
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal. |
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time. |
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it. |
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names. |
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. |
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree. |
Positive anything is better than negative nothing. |
Art is not a thing; it is a way. |
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. |