There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.

When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.

For you are you, and I am I, and once we were we… but as long as I exist and so do you – know that I will always love you.

Take a look and pick up a book, you never know what you might just find.

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.

I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.

I am ready to be alone.

It was shocking to realize how many low-income Americans don't have savings accounts.

The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

I've never really been into ghosts or spirits, and I've only had a couple of those kind of experiences.

It's easier to lose than to win.