“A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.”

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

You can fool people some of the time, but you can’t fool them all of the time.

United we stand; divided we fall.

One story sounds good until another is told.

Self-help is the best help.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Do not tell others how to act unless you can set a good example.

Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.

In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.

I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades.

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.

An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.

You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.

What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?…The term was faith.

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

There may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor. That is his right. It is his legal right, no matter how morally wrong he may be. It is his legal right, and no one can or dare question his exercise of that legal right.