Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and control them. The winds, the water, electricity, all aliens that in their wild form were dangerous, are now controlled by human will, and are made useful servants.

Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.