The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.  

Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

  You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.