The cheerful loser is the winner.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.