A house without books is like a room without windows.
If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go.
The evil of infatuation is illustrated by the drunkard.
A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only himself can damage that. His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.
Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls.
What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.
Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.
These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges
He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.
Oliver [McCall] has meant so much to my career and showed that in the heavyweight division, anything is possible.
I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.