“Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.”

You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.

Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

In trading/ investing it’s not about how much you make, but how much you don’t lose

Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul.

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full time job.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Gold has worked down from Alexander’s time… When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man’s reasoning powers.

Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race.

We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.

Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.

It’s a divine art to be cheerful.

Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.

I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.

Be cheerful, if you are wise.

The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.