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Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Any colour - so long as it's black.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.