It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.