They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
You may delay, but time will not.
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
When in doubt, don't.
Well done is better than well said.
A place for everything, everything in its place.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
