No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

Imagination is the core of attraction.

Your children are going through life with their eyes closed, so YOU'RE the one who has to steer.

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

Don't do anything that someone else can do for you because there are only so many things that only you can do.

Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights.

Try to keep an open mind.

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.

When people realize you're not the stuffed shirt they think you are it's such a relief and you have people who really like to be around you.

A Composition on the Piano

Winners aren't perfect. They made fewer mistakes than their rivals.