If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.