Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

Fear clogs; Faith liberates.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.