You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the pictures and descriptions in the world.
Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost, all is lost.
Many men die at 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.
If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they would still not reach a conclusion.
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.
If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before.
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Never confuse motion with action.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature.
If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.
In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless, but planning indispensable.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
Action is more generally understood than words.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another.
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.
Never give advice in a crowd.