Society and the World

Well done is better than well said.

Everything comes to he who hustles while he waits.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Asking “Who ought to be boss?” is like asking “Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?” Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Consensus is the negation of leadership.

Ignorance is bold, and knowledge reserved.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish: God Almighty made ’em to match the men.

Generosity always wins favor, particularly when accompanied by modesty.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

Ten thousand bad traits cannot make a single good one any the less good.