I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.
The world belongs to the energetic.
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.