Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.
James A. Garfield
Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
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I have always said that my whole public life was an experiment to determine whether an intelligent people would sustain a man in acting sensibly on each proposition that arose, and in doing nothing for mere show or demagogical effect.
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A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
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I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.
My God! What is there in this place that a man should ever want to get into it?
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I thank you doctor, but I am a dead man.
The great Carlyle has said that the best gift God ever gave to man was an eye that could really see; I venture to add that an equally rare and not less important gift is the courage to tell what one sees.
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