There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.