When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.