I did not know that we had ever quarreled.

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.

The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom.

Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.

Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

If thousands are thrown out of employment, it suggests that they were not well employed. Why don't they take the hint? It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?

Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.