We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

Dumbness and silence are two different things.

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.

When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.

Hope is like a beautiful flower. If we take great care of our hope, life could be a beautiful garden.

Alford was going to start this fast the same way he had started everything else, alone and uncertain

Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.

If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.

Now I am the unknown, the unknowable.

Luck is opportunity met by preparation - and to be prepared or unprepared is a personal choice.

We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.

Happy birthday,” she said. “And next time? Eat the stupid cupcake.

After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency.

I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.