“A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.”
“There is a tendency for things to right themselves.”
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
“Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.”
“An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.”
“Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.”
“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”
“The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.”
“Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.”
“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”
“Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.”
“The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.”
“A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.”
“Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.”
“In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.”
“I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.”
“The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.”
“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”
“Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy.”
“That which builds is better than that which is built.”
“If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.”
“At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.”
“Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.”
“Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.”
“Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.”
“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”
“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”
“A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.”
“Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.”
“No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.”