Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

I ended my statement to the colored soldiers by saying: "Now, I shall be very sorry to hurt you, and you don't know whether or not I will keep my word, but my men can tell you that I always do;" whereupon my cow-punchers, hunters, and miners solemnly nodded their heads and commented in chorus, exactly as if in a comic opera, "He always does; he always does!

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

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.