The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.
Ignoring a child's disrespect is the surest guarantee that it will continue.
There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
The surest way to be alone is to get married.
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.