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Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

I am proof against that word failure. I have seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

The best augury of a man success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

If you are lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I am doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I am not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.