It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.

Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.