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There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness, and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity
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How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or a shrug. How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable w
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Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.
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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.
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The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.
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The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well doing.
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You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.
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But he who never sins can little boast
Compared to him who goes and sins no more.
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Men are punished by their sins, not for them.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
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The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life.
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
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The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
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Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning.
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Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you sa
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it. A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a
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Men have become the tools of their tools.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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He is great who confers the most benefits.
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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.
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There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many.
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No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
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The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
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Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
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Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.
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Self-reverence, self knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
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We know what we are, but not what we may be.
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A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
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If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.
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Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.
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Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
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A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self-knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.
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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.
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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
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The conqueror and king in each of us is the Knower of truth. Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.
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When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.
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Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.
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We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
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It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.
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Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
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The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.
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Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - the cemetery.
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There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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