There is no education like adversity.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.