You are, when all is done-just what you are.

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.

To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

A distracted existence leads us to no goal

The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.