All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
"when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it."