All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?