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

“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? ”

“If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.”

“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.”

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

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

“A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.”