One can have a wit, but not a witless
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.
The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Memory is more indelible than ink.
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Well begun is half done.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
United we stand, divided we fall.
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
You know more than you think you do.
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.
