Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Contentment • Friendship • Reading
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Age • Health • Hope
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Communication • Empathy • Happiness
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Courage • Fear • Resistance
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Courage • Determination • Motivational
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
Education • Ignorance • Uncertainty
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Death • Existence • Fear
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. It is the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
Accuracy • Clarity • Communication
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
Happiness • Health • Wellness
Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
Procrastination • Productivity • Time
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
Etiquette • Sport
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Recreation • Sport
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Advice • Love • Relationships
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Education • Humor • Religion
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
Education • Growth • Improvement
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Achievements • Humility • Integrity
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
Integrity • Justice • Morality
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Ideas • Innovation • Perception
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
History
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Eternity • Humor • Teaching
