This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella

No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.