Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it and the record is gone; example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The world is governed by opinion.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

I have a theory you shouldn't write a book unless you have something to say.

If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, Tide, Roll!"

I listen to every type of metal under the sun. I'm not very discerning.

We will save our Second Amendment, which is totally under siege.

When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.

Love thou rose, yet leave it on its stem.

Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.

But few prize honour more than money.

When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.