Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be.
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
You may delay, but time will not.
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.