Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.