Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.