"There is no knowledge that is not power."

"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."

"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do it has increased."

"Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing."

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds..."

"I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods."

"We are wiser than we know."

"As a man begins to live more seriously within, he begins to live more simply without."

"Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for change."