He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape read more

Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harder blows, make acute and balanced observers.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him read more

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, read more

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow read more

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.