Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.