It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Anticipation

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Character

Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

Competition

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition.

Critics and Criticism

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Education

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think.

Experts

One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance.

Failure

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Friends and Friendship

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Glutton

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who "lives well."

Habit

Habit is a form of exercise

Influence

He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.

Laughter

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Love

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Memory

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Mistakes

The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.

Neighbors

Your neighbor is the man who needs you.

Planning

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Preparation

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today

Quality

If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time.

Service

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

Stupidity

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Teachers and Teaching

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

Victory

Victory; a matter of staying power.

Work

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.