Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.

New occasions teach new duties.

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

Whenever you have the kind of market that is taking shape now - a wildly volatile one with big pricing discrepancies - it plays right into the hands of managers who are very focused on research and stock picking.

To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.

Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes all the parts work together harmoniously toward a given end, its seat is in the higher reason, and it is efficient only as a servant of the will. Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is mere fantasy, the image-making power, common to all who have the gift of dreams.