Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

What makes night within us may leave stars.

But what is happiness except for the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

If you want a new idea, read an old book.

Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.