"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself."

"If you want to succeed, double your failure rate."

"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less than excellent work."

"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind a…"

"A man is known by the company he keeps. A company is known by the men it keeps."

"All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very…"

"He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fie…"

"In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of —— two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the…"

"It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so i…"

"All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either th…"