Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.
Nothing is permanent but change.
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.
The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.
Growth is often a painful process.
When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.
Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.
All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in it's larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.
The cure for grief is motion.
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.
The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.
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