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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

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I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

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Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not everyone sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth.

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We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

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People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

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Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that progress gain in strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it.

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When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely-- the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

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Folks never understand the folks they hate.

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The defects of the understanding, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old.

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