A prudent consideration for Number One.

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it.

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.

Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.

The classic literature is always modern.

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.