A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
What this power is, I cannot say. . . All I know is that it exists.
There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.
The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.
It is the man who carefully advances step by step. . . who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.
If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
For there's no motion That tends to vice in man, but I affirm It is the woman's part.