No person is important enough to make me angry..

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education..

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write..

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none..

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries..

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope..

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are..

Endurance is patience concentrated..

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books..

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it..

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men..

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion..

No pressure, no diamonds..

The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear..

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems..

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world..

Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth..

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind..

A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest ro….

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance..

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything..