Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.