We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.