Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

About beauty and truth

“New habits can be launched . . . on condition of there being new stimuli and new excitements.”<br /> William James quote

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

“The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

“When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.”

“I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.”

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

“If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.”