Accountability is the measure of a leader's height.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

The two qualities that chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is you own and that it is your only one.

Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.