Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love.

Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love.

My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to read more

My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.

Don't be a BEN brother, should have been, would have been, could have been, or might have been.

Don't be a BEN brother, should have been, would have been, could have been, or might have been.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

When someone falls, don't laugh at them. Help them up. They will pay you back some day.

When someone falls, don't laugh at them. Help them up. They will pay you back some day.

Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how read more

Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.