A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

The greatest homage to truth is to use it.

And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on.

It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.