An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.