“How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success? ”

“Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ”

“Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.”

“No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.”

“The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.”

“Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do”

“A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience.”