It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
