The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

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.

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.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.